Rabbit thinks this is just like the night he first met Ruth, but that this time Ronnie is standing in for him, and that he is there with Janice, and that he’s going to be the one who gets treated badly, like Tothero was that night.

Rabbit and Ronnie argue about who was a better basketball player.

Rabbit gets bored because he thinks Ronnie is afraid of him.

He ogles the waitress some more, mostly for Ruth’s benefit.

Ronnie says that Tothero said Rabbit wasn’t a team player.

Rabbit says Ronnie probably told Tothero that when he was asleep, and took Tothero’s lack of response for agreement. Ronnie denies it, says everybody at school knew.

Rabbit wonders. Ruth complains about the basketball talk. She says: “Every time I go out with this bastard we talk nothing but.”

Rabbit asks Margaret about Tothero again and she says he’s probably at home.

Rabbit feels like he and Margaret are separated from Ruth and Ronnie.

Ronnie starts playing up to Ruth, and Rabbit thinks she might like it.

Ronnie tries to flirt with the waitress who puts him in his place, pleasing Rabbit.

Ronnie starts talking about when he and Ruth went to Atlantic City.

She says it was with “another couple.” She seems nervous.

Ronnie says the other couple had sex all the time, and that the guy liked to slap the lady when he was coming. He also hints that he and Ruth had sex.

Ruth participates in telling the story, nervous, but not trying to conceal.

Rabbit wants to know if the guy also liked to bite women.

Ronnie doesn’t know.

Rabbit talks about one of the prostitutes in Texas that had bite marks on her butt. According to Rabbit: “She was a virgin otherwise.”

Ronnie starts to tell a joke about a prostitute with a large vagina.

Rabbit starts thinking about the MagiPeel Peeler and how well it peeled vegetables.

Ruth is just sitting there, not sure if there if Rabbit and Ronnie aren’t the same.